Clarendon House Publications

02/01/2026

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02/01/2026

Just as Tolkien used the entire mythos of Middle-earth to assist him in processing what he had witnessed in the First World War and in his life overall, many writers use their writing as a kind of therapy or way of addressing deep, partly-glimpsed concerns about the world…

Just as Tolkien used the entire mythos of Middle-earth to assist him in processing what he had witnessed in the First World War and in his life overall, many writers use their writing as a kind of therapy or way of addressing deep, partly-glimpsed concerns about the world. I’m not suggesting that ...

01/01/2026

PRESENTING...
THE CLARENDON HOUSE PUBLICATIONS CATALOGUE
FOR 2026!
https://www.clarendonhousebooks.com/free-items

Over seven years ago, I launched Clarendon House Publications from my home here on the edge of the Yorkshire Moors in England.

Since then, I have published almost 300 high quality items - books, magazines, course modules - and helped hundreds of authors and poets achieve publication, some for the first time.

Over 30 authors have had individual novels or collections produced through me - some of these have had several books published and have gone on to carve out careers for themselves as writers.

With the best-selling books How Stories Really Work and Become a Professional Author (and the Become a Professional Author Course) I have helped writers understand exactly what it is they are doing and how they are doing it - and boosted their confidence to do more of it.

Many Clarendon House writing tools have been released for free download, fully illustrated, in order to assist writers create real careers for themselves.

Now, here collected for the first time for your convenience, are all those publications with links to take you to wherever you need to go to acquire them. They make great gifts - for yourself and others!

Please email me if you have any questions or feedback:
[email protected]

Here’s to many more publications and many more years helping you achieve your dreams!

Grant P. Hudson

INSIDE:

FREE ITEMS
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FANTASY
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SCIENCE FICTION
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GALAXY
SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY ANTHOLOGIES
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SHORT STORIES, NOVELS, MIXED GENRE LITERARY FICTION
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NON-FICTION, POETRY AND OTHER DELIGHTS
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POETICA
POETRY ANTHOLOGIES
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Any questions?
Drop me a line at
[email protected]

Download your copy of the catalogue now:
https://www.clarendonhousebooks.com/free-items

01/01/2026

Horror stories belong in the Irony quadrant of my genre circle, as outlined in my book How Stories Really Work.

Irony - and its subset horror - draw their power from two main sources…

Horror stories belong in the Irony quadrant of my genre circle, as outlined in my book How Stories Really Work. Irony - and its subset horror - draw their power from two main sources: 1. The expectations arising from the conventional tropes of the Epic genre, in which events are presented as real an...

31/12/2025

I recently had a writer contact me to ask about his use of elves in various stories that he was working on. He was wondering in particular about the ‘trope’ of ‘elves’ and whether or not readers were tired of them; he also had questions about whether to combine characters from various stories into one. This is more or less what I wrote in reply…

I recently had a writer contact me to ask about his use of elves in various stories that he was working on. He was wondering in particular about the ‘trope’ of ‘elves’ and whether or not readers were tired of them; he also had questions about whether to combine characters from various storie...

30/12/2025

Marketing is an area of being a writer which has never been fully cracked by many. Traditional publishing usually took on this role, and in fact marketing was largely why they thrived. But with the arrival of the Golden Age of Independent Publishing, writers found themselves having to market their own work once it was done. And many, many writers struggle terribly with it…

Marketing is an area of being a writer which has never been fully cracked by many. Traditional publishing usually took on this role, and in fact marketing was largely why they thrived. But with the arrival of the Golden Age of Independent Publishing, writers found themselves having to market their o...

29/12/2025

Having established who you really are, what you are really interested in, and what a group of people like that might look like in Part One, let’s take a look at how to get in touch with them.

The answer is literally staring you in the face…

Having established who you really are, what you are really interested in, and what a group of people like that might look like in Part One, let’s take a look at how to get in touch with them. The answer is literally staring you in the face. Hold your own life up to the mirror. Where are you right ...

27/12/2025

My Offer to You

Many years ago, after a long, thoughtful and somewhat hazardous walk across the Yorkshire Moors (and having read widely across all genres of literature for almost 40 years) I codified principles which all master authors use when telling stories. I trialled these ideas for a few years in my English classes in front of several groups of highly intelligent students, many of whom, entranced and invigorated, encouraged me to write a book.

Eventually, in 2016, I wrote and released that book: How Stories Really Work: Exploring the Physics of Fiction. It became a best-seller in its field and has never garnered less than five stars in ratings.

The fundamentals outlined in the book form the basis for my unique developmental editing and beta reading services. These services are virtually priceless, because they offer feedback and guidance which you will not find anywhere else, even though they are based on the secrets behind all great literature and storytelling, from ancient epics, through modern short stories, novels and plays, to classics of cinema. We’re talking deeper than Joseph Campbell, simpler than Northrop Frye - things that supersede anything else you’ll have read in the field of storytelling.

My offer to you is this: I can empower you to tell the story that you want or need to tell in ways which readers will universally recognise and respond to. If you have the budget, we can go from key thematic basics all the way down to final proofreading and formatting, but if you don’t feel you can afford that, I can tailor what I do to fit your situation.

For example, if you have only a small amount of money set aside for this kind of thing, I can still guide you towards magical foundations which will ensure your story strikes the right chords.

The thing to do is contact me and we can work out exactly what you need and how I can help.

And I think I can help: whether you’re writing short stories, plays, film screenplays or grand novels, whether you’re struggling with plots, characters or even ideas, or whether you have completed a huge work and want some certainties about it.

Talk to me:

[email protected]

27/12/2025

There’s probably least one person in the world who would give you one hundred thousand pounds as a gift if they had it. Or at least you can imagine that there might be. They would be your biggest fan…

There’s probably least one person in the world who would give you one hundred thousand pounds as a gift if they had it. Or at least you can imagine that there might be. They would be your biggest fan. And then there are people who have never heard of you and who wouldn’t dream of giving you any ...

26/12/2025

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26/12/2025

I wanted to give you an instance of how to use the same principles that work in story telling to acquire some success in marketing. To do this, I’m going to use a very personal and small scale example…

I wanted to give you an instance of how to use the same principles that work in story telling to acquire some success in marketing. To do this, I’m going to use a very personal and small scale example. I wrote a book over two years, (How Stories Really Work) based on 40 years of study of fiction a...

24/12/2025

It’s probably true to say that within every successful story is a progression from Light to Dark. Most stories (Comedies and Epics or adventure stories) then have what Tolkien called a ‘eucatastrophe’ at the end in which the darkness is turned into light, but some (Tragedies and Ironies) leave readers in that darkness, for them to make of it what they will…

It’s probably true to say that within every successful story is a progression from Light to Dark. Most stories (Comedies and Epics or adventure stories) then have what Tolkien called a ‘eucatastrophe’ at the end in which the darkness is turned into light, but some (Tragedies and Ironies) leave...